US President Donald Trump, who met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the G7 last week and spoke to Putin beforehand, remarked that Ukraine was now "doing pretty well" in the war.

Axar.az reports, citing Axios, that two officials who attended the summit said Trump expressed frustration with Putin and even signaled he could walk back the "Anchorage understandings," under which the U.S. accepted Russia's demand that it would control Ukraine's Donbas region under any deal.

"Trump was skeptical about everything regarding Putin, and talked about pressure on Russia, but other leaders do not believe he will actually do something about it," one official told Axios.